I'm curious how the Democrats will try to spin this one as a failure.

Iraq's parliament adopted legislation Saturday on the reinstatement of thousands of former Baath party supporters to government jobs, a key benchmark sought by the United States as a step toward national reconciliation.

The bill was approved by a unanimous show of hands on each of the law's 30 clauses. Titled the Accountability and Justice law, it seeks to relax restrictions on the rights of members of Saddam Hussein's now-dissolved Baath party to fill government posts.

It is also designed to reinstate thousands of Baathists in government jobs from which they had been dismissed because of their ties to the party.

Let's be clear -- de-Baathification had to happen, just as de-Nazification had to happen in Germany in 1945. The problem was that it went too far. Most low-level officials in Germany were reinstated in place quickly. That didn't happen in Iraq. Undoing the problem has been an important key to creating stability in Iraq. And now the question has been settled.

H/T Captain's Quarters

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